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EU and UN to link carbon trading registers by December: Brussels
Brussels (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The European Commission on Wednesday said the EU will link its carbon trading market to the United Nations' scheme by December at the latest. The joined-up schemes should give Europe's biggest polluters -- such as the steel, construction and energy firms -- more leeway to subsidise CO2 reduction projections worldwide in return for credits in the EU's trading system. The linking of the ... more Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete 
The Hague (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A road in the small Dutch town of Hengelo is to be paved with air-purifying concrete in a trial that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against rising pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Experts from the University of Twente developed and tested the concrete paving stones which contain a titanium dioxide-based additive. In laboratory conditions, the additive -- under the ... more China inflation to ease to 5.5 percent: official 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 6, 2008China's consumer inflation is expected to ease to 5.5 percent in the third quarter and 4.5 percent in the last three months of the year, a senior official said Wednesday. The 2008 consumer inflation rate is likely to stand between six and seven percent, Xu Lianzhong, head of the National Development and Reform Commission's price office, wrote in an opinion piece in the China Securities ... more Canada's navy to escort ships carrying food aid for Somalia 
Ottawa (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A Canadian navy frigate is being deployed to the coast of Somalia to escort World Food Programme ships carrying humanitarian aid to the region beset by pirates, Canada's government said Wednesday. HMCS Ville de Quebec, at the request of the UN World Food Programme and the UN International Maritime Organization, has been dispatched "to ensure their safe arrival at designated ports," said ... more Walker's World: The recession spreads 
Washington (UPI) Aug 6, 2008 The fall in the oil price to $118 a barrel sounded like good news to the world's markets, which all rose Tuesday. But it could be bad news, if the decline in demand signals that the slowdown is spreading from the "old" economies of the United States, Europe and Japan and starting to affect the "new" economies of the developing world. That ominous prospect of a drift was explicitly ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Aug 6, 2008Environmental group Greenpeace hung a banner reading "Stop Deforestation" on the Indonesian forestry ministry Wednesday and called for a moratorium on palm oil concessions on forested land. "The forestry ministry is currently part of the deforestation problem. The ministry as the state agency tasked with protecting the forests is in fact promoting forest destruction," Greenpeace activist ... more Quake kills three in China's Sichuan: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A 6.0-magnitude earthquake killed three people in southwest China's Sichuan province as the Olympic torch passed through the area on its final leg before reaching Beijing, state media said Wednesday. At least 22 people were injured in the quake on Tuesday, one of the strongest since a devastating tremor hit the region in May, the China News Service reported. The quake struck shortly ... more Poland seeks allies to block EU carbon caps: report 
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 6, 2008Poland said Wednesday it was trying to gather support from fellow European Union members to block Brussels' curbs on carbon dioxide emissions, which Warsaw claims will hurt its economic growth. "We are trying to find allies, especially among fellow EU newcomers," Michal Boni, a senior aide to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, was quoted as saying by Poland's PAP news agency. "It's possible to ... more Former Soviet states at AIDS tipping point: experts 
Mexico City (AFP) Aug 6, 2008Experts are concerned that some of the states that emerged from the former Soviet Union are on the brink of widespread HIV/AIDS epidemics, the global AIDS conference heard on Wednesday. Concentrated cases of infection among intravenous drug users, sex workers and gays are now placing some countries "on the verge of a generalized epidemic," Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global ... more Advances In High-Res Modeling Will Help Improve Storm Surge Forecasts 
Stony Brook NY (SPX) Aug 04, 2008A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by scientists at Stony Brook University will better be able to predict flood levels and when flooding will occur in the New York metropolitan area. The report also reinforces that flooding is dependent not just ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Hydro Green Energy and the Wind Energy Systems Technology Group (W.E.S.T.) have agreed to explore the potential to develop the world's first hybrid offshore wind-hydrokinetic ocean current power projects. If fully developed as envisioned, Hydro Green Energy and W.E.S.T. will utilize the Gulf of Mexico's wind and water currents to generate nearly 5,000 megawatts of clean, renewable electricity. ... more Japan wants answers amid new Chinese dumplings scare 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 6, 2008Japan called Wednesday for a swift resolution of a health scare involving Chinese dumplings as it emerged that several people had fallen ill in China after eating the same product. The latest food poisoning cases in China appeared to cast doubt on Beijing's assertion that the dumplings at the centre of the incident in Japan early this year were contaminated with pesticide after leaving the ... more Big Oil, Bigger Giveaways 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2008 Federal dollars continue to flow toward oil companies that are earning record profits and fueling our oil addiction. This analysis of the tax code and federal budget reveals that oil companies are slated to receive more than $32.9 billion in handouts from taxpayers over the next five years. This figure includes tax benefits, royalty relief, research and development subsidies and ... more Analysis: Bolivia, Venezuela bolster gas 
Miami (UPI) Aug 6, 2008 Venezuela has committed nearly $1 billion to help Bolivia increase its natural gas reserves -- the second-largest in Latin America -- an expenditure that comes amid increased tensions ahead of a recall referendum for the Bolivian president. President Evo Morales, whose leadership is the subject of Sunday's referendum, announced Bolivia's state-owned energy company YPFB and its Venezuela ... more Analysis: BTC pipeline explosion 
Washington (UPI) Aug 6, 2008 Following the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new "Great Game" began, this time between Russia and the United States, which replaced Britain in a protracted, covert struggle for the Caucasus and Central Asia, the ultimate prize being the region's vast energy reserves, particularly those of the Caspian. A decade ago Vice President Dick Cheney, then Halliburton CEO, remarked, "I can't ... more
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